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PRECOLUMBIAN ART : INCLUDING A SELECTION OF ... - Lempertz

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*41<br />

MIDDLE MOCHICA VESSEL<br />

Ca. A. D. 200-500<br />

The vessel with modeled seated female fi gure<br />

surmounted on the round bottle with head tilted<br />

downward and holding her right arm across her<br />

chest and balancing two bowls with corn kernels<br />

(?) on her left arm, a painted cloth before her with<br />

light and dark corn kernels, with a seated female<br />

fi gure on the right, possibly a servant, and the left<br />

side decorated with fi ve corn cobs of alternating<br />

colors, painted in cream, brown and reddish<br />

brown.<br />

Height 26 cm<br />

Provenance<br />

Bernoulli Collection, Basel, 1949<br />

Literature<br />

Ferdinand Anton, Alt -Peru und seine Kunst,<br />

Leipzig, 1972, pl. 135<br />

Istvan Racz, Perun Taide, Helsinki, 1975, pl. 31<br />

Alan Lapiner, Pre-Columbian Art of South America,<br />

1974, pl. 299<br />

This scene might depict a display of off erings or<br />

form part of a planting rite.<br />

€ 2 500 – 4 500

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